The India-California Air Mitigation Pollution Program (ICAMP) was jointly launched by University of California at San Diego, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) of India, California Air Resource...

In 1999, a Category 5 cyclone devastated the state of Odisha in India, leaving 10,000 people dead and causing $4.5 billion in damages. Fourteen years later, Phailin, another monster storm almost as strong,...

In the month of June this year, Uttarakhand, endowed with vast natural resources and one of the most frequented tourist and pilgrimage destinations in India, suffered unprecedented rainfall, devastating...

Seventy eight year old Basavannevva Shelavadi peers happily through her foggy glasses at the new blue tap in front of the makeshift room in which she lives along with her young grandson. Although she first...

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) holds out the promise of stable, clean and locally-sourced power for countries with abundant sunlight. CSP has the added advantage of being able to dispatch a sizeable amount...

A new World Bank report on urban growth in India, launched recently in New Delhi, shows India’s urban areas growing much faster than expected, adding 90 million new residents in the last 10 years. By 2030,...

Cyclone Phailin made landfall near Gopalpur in the State of Odisha, India on October 12 at around 9:15 pm local time with wind speeds of around 200 km/hour. This cyclone, the size of Hurricane Katrina,...

The World Bank’s India Development Update of October 2013 says that although the recent turmoil in global markets has amplified India's macroeconomic vulnerabilities, the country's growth potential remains...

The past decade has seen many major natural disasters across South Asia: the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, 2007 cyclone in Bangladesh, and recent flooding in India. Among...

When Gopal Maharjan, a young engineering graduate in Nepal, started looking for a job in Kathmandu he did not get a great response. Then he heard about online jobs with CloudFactory, a “microwork” platform....

What is corporate social responsibility? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is often defined as corporate responsibility, corporate citizenship, social enterprise, sustainable development, triple-bottom...

Geeta Bhogan remembers the time not so long ago when all 15 members of her husband’s extended family took turns to fetch water from the borewell a long distance from their home in Bekkinakeri village,...

Born into Kamaiyas, a community of Nepali bonded laborers, Urmila Chaudhary was beaten and forced to work from the age of six without pay for eleven years. She walks with a limp as a result of years of...

When the World Bank first teamed up with the European Space Agency to demonstrate how Earth observation can work for international development, a small climate change adaptation project on the coast of...

Climate change, rapid urbanization, and subsiding land are putting the world's coastal cities at increasing risk of dangerous and costly flooding, a new study calculating future urban losses from flooding...

The summer of 2013 was unusually harsh in the southern state of Kerala, the lush coastal state in southern India. Before the monsoon arrived, there was little relief from the scorching summer heat for...

In June 2010, the World Bank launched a project to scale up sustainable and responsible microfinance to reach the financially excluded, particularly in under-served parts of the country. The project supports...

Severe flooding, prolonged droughts, heat extremes, reduced food and energy, and even islands inundated with seawater. These nightmare scenarios may become reality in South Asia by mid-century unless drastic...